GeoPointe - Dominica

Official Name: Commonwealth of Dominica

Location: Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about half way between Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago.

Capital: Roseau

Area:	total: 751 sq km
	land: 751 sq km
	water: 0 sq km

Lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m

Highest point: Morne Diablotins 1,447 m

Flowers And Bay, Cabrits NP, Dominica

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Population: 73,449 (July 2014 est.)

Nationality: Dominican(s)

Ethnic groups: Black 86.8%, mixed 8.9%, Carib Amerindian 2.9%, white 0.8%, other 0.7%

Religions: Roman Catholic 61.4%, Protestant 20.6% (Seventh-Day Adventist 6%, Pentecostal 5.6%, Baptist 4.1%, Methodist 3.7%, Church of God 1.2%), Jehovah's Witnesses 1.2%, other Christian 7.7%, Rastafarian 1.3%, other or unspecified 1.6%, none 6.1%

Languages: English (official), French patois.

Tropical. Moderated by northeast trade winds. Heavy rainfall

Government type: Parliamentary democracy

Independence: 3 November 1978 (from the United Kingdom)

National holiday: Independence Day, 3 November (1978)